Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: Was it a matter of “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”, or “big girls don’t cry”? Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had an emotional moment that consumed media attention. But who played “misty” and why? This paper employs semiotic phenomenology in a close examination of the media discourse surrounding this ostensibly trivial personal moment. Comparisons are made to prominent men who have frequently been emotional in public, including George H. Bush and his son, Edmund Muskie, and Bill Clinton, among others. The subtle politics of gender are exposed as a hidden semiotic influencing perceptions and expressions of the character required to assume the position of President of the USA. This character may be emotional only under certain rules embedded in semiotic codes. These rules will be exposed and tested against the examples.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Research suggests that residential segregation is the fundamental dynamic by which the vast interracial inequalities extant in American society are perpetuated. Recently, scholars have begun to pay more attention to residential segregation as it exists in suburban and rural areas, and between Whites and all major minority groups (i.e., in addition to African-Americans). Here, I conduct a comparative analysis of one primarily urban and one primarily suburban region in the southern part of New Hampshire, mapping trends in the distribution of minority residents and socioeconomic well-being over the last decade of the 20th century. As the urban center grew and became more diverse, residential segregation appears to have increased, and in 2000 the spatial distribution of unemployment and poverty was highly associated with that of minority residents. In the suburban region, however, growth and increased diversity appears to have been accompanied by a slight shift toward integration. The suburban region appears to have been more segregated with respect to socioeconomic status in 2000 than 1990, though the distribution of disadvantage was not highly associated with that of minority residents at the end of the 20th century. Implications for contemporary ideas of residential segregation are discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Award addresses usually take the path of presentation of current research or the more personal path of how a career evolved in the context of emerging knowledge and practice. The latter path will be followed for this address. The points along this path include, as the title indicates, picketing the New Hampshire State Prison in the era of McCarthyism, participating in founding both the American Psychology-Law Society and the journal Criminal Justice & Behavior, appreciating the issues involved in expert testimony, helping establish the psychology-law program at the University of Alabama, and (perhaps most unlikely) Black Panthers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This article, rather than focusing on media expectations as the key to momentum in presidential primary contests, instead concentrates on the ?fundamentals? of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote in 1988, 1992, and 2000 as key predictors of success in subsequent presidential primaries. (This is something akin to picking stocks based on old-fashioned measures of value such as price-earnings ratios, as opposed to buying whichever stocks have the best buzz from various brokers on CNBC.) By focusing on how well candidates did with particular segments of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote, such as the working-class and the liberal elite, we can see which candidates showed ?sound fundamentals? ? that is, evidence of a broad-based coalition composed of both the liberal elite and the working-class base ? and which candidates showed ?weak fundamentals,? or support from just one faction of the party, with little evidence of the ability to build a coalition among the Democratic Party electorate. During the last three Democratic party cycles, it has been the ?coalition candidate,? not the candidate of a particular faction of the party, that has proceeded to win the party?s nomination.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the worst hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites can be listed on the federal Superfund, or National Priorities List, and qualify for federal cleanup funding. This comparative case study explores the specific circumstances and social contexts that surround two potential Superfund sites in New Hampshire. It investigates how communities, agencies, and local officials each understand the Superfund process and come together to formulate cleanup decisions, using document analysis and interviews. The article concludes that local community support for the Superfund program can move a site more quickly to a Superfund listing. Conversely, if a community wishes to explore alternative cleanup approaches it will be impeding a listing on Superfund, and therefore federal funding for the cleanup of the site. Furthermore, the use of federal grants in order to obtain technical or planning assistance can aid in organizing and communicating community visions for future use of the site, and help the Superfund process move forward.